The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-03-22
EARLIER.
The First Fast Nail Arrives i'm
Sedalia Seven and One Half
Hours Earlier.
"A Pleasant and Successful Trip
Yesterday From st. Louis
to Kansas City.

| The n:st Flying Dutchman" got into
SedalIa at s:l5 yesterday morning
on time and was greeted by crowd OF
enthusi lstIc people who cungregaled AT
! Union depot.
The tram left ST. Louis Monday morn
ing AT ) o'clock, ON the arrival OF the last
mail from New York. The train as il
pulled out vi 81. Louis consisted of engine
253, with Al. Taylor is engineer, two pos
tai cars and Pullman sleeper-the latter
being provided Tor the guests who were in
yIted To witness the first trip, which was a
grand success from the beginning 10 the
ending.
The first stop out of ST. Louis was made
at FasItic al 4:UO a IN, 81 miles distant
A moments stop was all that was necessary
and The train went on. line next stop was
at Chamois, loo miles flom ct Louis. AT
the Usage bridge halt of less than ten
seconds was made.
At Jefferson City, about ESQ. the train
went drought the place al The rate of fifty
miles an hour. The dust was SO great that
the depot was lost u vIe~, On Top of the
biuh squad OF legislators and residents OF
the old burg stoOd looking sadly al pro-
gress rs 1t passed them by. Henry w.
Ewing, OF the Tribune, was then In his
night shirt looking as il he had lost some
thing more than his morning nap. At
Scott Station, the train stopped long
enough 10 have tile locomotive oiled. Sc
dalIa FaS reached ~ S:lj, when engine 3l7
with Tom Wood as driver, was coupled To-
the train.
Kansas CITY union depot was reached at
i0:0j-hve minutes ahead of time
Before fhls point was reached, a meeting
was called To- order by lion. A VI Dock
cry, Of GallaIin, Mo-, when Mayor Francis
offered the following resolution which was
unanimously passed:
RssDlrsd -rnat, The thanks of the excur
sionists be rendered the Missouri Pacific
railroad company for the very hOspitaOie
manner in which they had been treated
and for courtesleS extended To officials and
others, their guests.
The following named were on the train
Among those who accompanied the train
ON lis maiden trip were II. Z. Townsend,
general passenger agent; F..B. Drake,
Nissouri Pacific railroad
Sam Irwin, master car builder, Missouri
Pacific L. Bartlett, master mechanic,
Missouri Pacific; ID. X. Francis, mayor,
ST, Louis; III. J. Bowen
postmaster, OF St. Joseph
Michael Tanning, private secretary OF
Mayor FIanc,s; Willis Howe. proprie or
of LindeIl hotel, St. Luis; l.. Nj. Rumsey,
ST. LOUIS; j. II. KOOlousky, Westliche
Post; NJ. W. Hutchinson and q. Johnson,
Kansas City JOarRai; William Hyde, post
postmaster general; L. Z. Nash,
general superintendent railway mail SER
vice; Hon. A. NJ. Dockery, congressman
third district of Missouri; G. E. Wave,
New York World; Cliff Saunders, Sunday
Sayings, st. Louis Jno. L. McEnni', St.
Louis Republican,, j. J. Jennings, Globe
Democrat; .. +. Guthrie, assistant super
intendent railway mail service
John p: Strong and W. W.
Jermane, st. Joseph Herald
F. VI. Harris, pOstOffice Inspector John |
Garfield, GtObJ-D Democrat; ID. p. Mann,
Kansas City Journal; j. l.. Graf, st. |
Louis Republican,, and a representative of
The BAzoo.
The followed named were the postal
clerks in charge Of the mail car: T. Fl. |
Conkling, VI. Diebling, D. NJ. Smith, G. +. !
Delisle. c o Weugler, VIM. Best, w. s. |
j. Stems.
The trip was great success. The ca /
pacity of the Missouri Pacihc TO make the |
time is only the limit of the machinery |
employed. The track, bridges and equip |
ment are all capable of making more than |
mile minute If the locomotive wheels can !
be made to turn fast enough. In the |
run yesterday spurts of fifty to sixty miles
an hOnr were made with great success and /
safety. The time is coming when the run
from st. LOus to Sedalia will be made one |
honr quicker than it was yesterday. All |
hail to the "Flying Dutchman"